The airports authority in charge of building the Dulles Rail line is starting to grow impatient with contractors who have reported a 194-day delay in building the $2.8 billion first phase of the project. “This [delay] is a bone of contention, I have to confess. I think we should have resolved this already,” Dulles committee chairwoman for the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority, Mame Reiley, told reporters Wednesday. “I think they’re dragging their feet. I think they’re dragging their feet intentionally.”
Reiley said she thought Dulles Transit Partners, the contracting group building the rail line and led by Bechtel and URS, may be trying to avoid addressing schedule issues until after bidding on the contract for the second phase of the rail line.
